In Guilderland, Democrats outnumber Republicans by nearly 2 to 1 and all of the elected officials are Democrats. But divisions within the party appear to be healing as Christine Napierski was appointed deputy supervisor.

ALBANY COUNTY — Friends of Five Rivers has received $27,638 from the state to increase marketing and outreach throughout the greater Capital Region.

The award is “to ultimately drive up community engagement, membership, and volunteerism,” according to a Jan. 5 release from the governor’s office.

In an era when editorial cartoonists are becoming a rarity, The Enterprise is fortunate to have one of the best.

County Comptroller Susan Rizzo, after being sworn in for her second four-year term on Friday, said the trailblazing women in her life had shaped her. The other officials, all men, gave more patriarchal views of family support.

According to the most recent report on Albany County’s wastewater surveillance, covering the two-week period from Nov. 28 to Dec. 14, the trends show an increase from Albany’s North and South plants and Guilderland’s plant while showing a decrease for Bethlehem’s plant. For Albany’s North Plant, South Plant, and the town of Guilderland, the detection level suggests a daily case incidence of more than 50 cases per 100,000 people, the report says.

One further suit seeking to stop the Costco project, filed in September, has yet to be decided. It has the same petitioners represented by the same lawyer as the suit that was just dismissed ​​and seeks to annul the Aug. 22 decision by the Guilderland Industrial Development Agency to allow Pyramid to acquire by eminent domain the roads in the neighborhood Pyramid had bought up years ago where it plans to build the Costco.

“Writers write,” said Timothy Wiles, adding that he is looking forward to the discipline of writing a poem each day as “a good way to transition from one life to another.”

The town formed a committee to update its comprehensive plan, the village preserved its community traditions but will lose the service of its rescue squad after 86 years, and the school district continued its work to prepare students for a diverse and inclusive world.

“Our hope would be to help them,” Guilderland Supervisor Peter Barber said of the school district, calling it “a bit ironic” that the town would take on the task of preserving school district history.

Originally, Laviano had wanted to convert just the front half of the lot to Local Business, and build two houses in back, but he re-did the application to rezone the entire lot.